Meat holder



May 29, 1923.

w. F. H. BRAUN MEAT HOLDER Filed May l, 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet inw/PNE Y,

Patented May 29, l1923.

teenage WILLIAM BRAUN,` or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIa. 1

MEAT HOLDER.

y Application led May 1A,

To aZZ whom it may concern-.-

Be it known that I, IVILLIAM. F. I.

BRAUN a citizen ofthe rUnited. States,k re-4 siding lat Philadelphia, in the county of vPhiladelphia and State of Pennsylvania,

have invented a new and useful Improve` ment in Meat Holders, of which -th'e followlng is a specification.

vThe-principal object ofthe presentinven-l tion is to provide forskewering and pulling the'meat 'up againsttheholder where` bythe meat, even in the form of a thin slice or meat enchcan be firmly held. andfprop-nl erly'sliced either by hand or by. machine.

Another object of the invention isi to` pro-1 vide for imparting to the meatA hooks a inotion of translation in which there isno rotation and in -which all the parts of the meat hooks move in the same way for tirstpene-l trating the meat, then` skewering the meat7 and then drawing lthe meat by means of the skewering against the holding plate. Another object of the invention is to provide an efficient, reliable and comparatively simple meat holder.

Other objects of the invention will appear from the following description and the invention may be said, generally stated, to consist of a meat holder embodying in combination a plate or surface against which the meat is pulled and skewermeans adapted to enter and skewer the meat and then pull it afrainstpsaid surface by a motion of translation, and the invention further comprises the improvements to be presently described and finally claimed.

In the description referencewill be made to the accompanying drawings forming' part hereof and in which-y Figure 1 is a front view of a meat holder embodying features of the invention and drawn with parts broken away and with parts in section.

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view'on the line ,2f-2 of Figure 1 with partsomitted, and

F ig. 3 is a diagrammatic view illustrative of the movement of translation of the skewer means. y

In the drawings 1 are standards or side pieces and they each carry intermeshing gears of which six are shown for each standard but they maybe considered in pairs 2 and'3, and since the three pairs foreach standard are duplicates a description of one 1922. seria1`.N0.557,554.

pair will suflice.v 4 and 5 are a pair of rodsv of which three pairs are shown and ofwhich one pair are all alike.f=The-rod 4 is arranged eccentrically of the center ofv rotation of; thelgearv wheels 2 which it connects -orfspan'sgand the,

will bey described, because the pairsf rody 5 is similarly arrangedwith respect-to f the gear wheels These vrods 4 and `dop not turn about theirjaxes,v beingnprevented from doing'so by the pin, which.;passesij through Aopenings provided in .them` butthe gear wheels 2 and 3vturn-infrespect to these i rods.- As shown hubs-Tof the ,gear-wheelsf are arranged :through-openings i'n Vthe stand-- I ardsto allow the wheels to'turn about-their own centers', andthe ends ofthe rodsenter so'cket's'SiV provided in the; gear. `*wheelsin order to keep the hubs 7- in the described position and in .order to permit the gear wheels to turn whilst the rodsdo not turn. 9 is a plate or surface against which the meat is drawn andfwhich isl provided with `slots or openings 10 for a purpose to berpresently described. v 11, generally, are .skewers or', .f VV80 f hooks and they are shownto consist of bills4 12 and shanks 13. The Shanks 13 are 'rigidlyff'` connected with the rods 4v and 5 and the bills of the-hooks that are connected withthe rods 4 are shown as reversely arranged inrespect to the bills of the hooks that are connected with the rods 5. if- Thefskewers' 11 work in the slots 10. 14 is ahandle connectedv with one .of the gear wheels vandlby which they are all turned about their respective centers since they` are all interconnected.) 15 indicates parts of a slicing machine well un# derstood and therefore notillustrated .orf

described in detail andr with which aholder embodying features of the invention maybe employed. description of the modeof operation of one of the hooksor curved skewers 11 will begiven. Referring to Fig. 3, the rod 4 travels` in the direction indicated by the arrow with its axis in the cirfcularpath indicated by the dotted circle a. Beginning with the curved skewer or hook'` in the position b, the positions of theskewer are shown at c, d, and @reference being made to the curved skewer at -the upper part of y the figure, and the movements of the curved skewer at the lower part ofthe figure are the `same but in reverse direction. Referring to the curvedl skewer at the top 'of the figure, it will be observed that the pin prevents the rod 4 from turning-and that 1 lio the right, at the center line -x its motion is prineipally'toward the top of the sheet, and above the line x--a its movement.

r is toward the left and in all positions it is parallel to itself. f therefore We consider the action upon meat disposed to the right of the platev 9 in Figure l, it can be said that the eurvediskewer first isjmerely pushed into the meat with the portion 1/ thereof entering the meat more or less faeewise, then the point of the Curved skewer travels upward and into the meat parallel. with the face thereof that'lies toward the part 9, and then the Curved skewer upon which the meat is thus impaled mores towardthe i left above the line 'and pulls the meat up against the face of the part' 9 and in some cases the meat may enter the'sl'ot l0 slightly, althoughthatjisnot in all eases essential. Froml this description of. the movements and operationl of one curved skewer the Inode of operation of! the meat holder can be readily understood bearing in mind that the curved skewers are reversed so that. the skewering or impalingI effect of one set is opposed by the other seat and thus thermeat is not shifted up or down but is firmly held against suchmotion and is pulled up to place and firmly held on the meat holder.

It will be obvious to those skilled in the art to which the invention relates that modilications may be made in details of Construction and arrangement Without 'departing from the spirit of the invention which is not limited as to those matters or otherwise than the prior art and the appended claim may require.

I claim:

In a meat holder the combination of gears revoluble about their centers, rodsv eecentrieally Connected with the faces ofthe gears, means for preventing rotation of the rods about their own axes, curved skewersv rigid with the rods, and a slotted surface with which the curved skewers (5o-operatey by motion of translation to pull the meat. against the surface.Y

WILLIAM: r. BRAUN. 

